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Brian “Baby” Williams, a.k.a. Birdman is a rapper and the head of Cash Money Records. He also has a very close relationship with his star artist and protege Lil Wayne

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See above for a rundown of Snoop and Crip walking

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Snoop, while not the inventor of the “izzle” slang, was certainly one of its main popularizers. The line minus slang reads: “Creep to the spot, and stash my knot [of money]/Then call the D.O.C., you know we got it locked”

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Cube is riding in a car with 22 inch rims

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Cube is confident enough in his macking abilities (appropriate, since he’s the man who wrote “Who’s the Mack”) that he takes for granted his ability to pull ladies on the level of Janet Jackson

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Westside Connection is Ice Cube’s long-time group consisting of himself, WC, and Mack 10

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Ren’s antagonist is violating a cardinal pimp rule and is “brown-nosing” his hoes – i.e., sucking up to them, treating them too well, etc.

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See here for the full story behind this line. To summarize, the Juice Crew’s MC Shan had a song called “The Bridge”, which KRS (mistakenly, according to Shan) thought claimed that hip-hop started in Shan’s home of Queensbridge houses, Queens. KRS, a Bronx native, took offense and began the inter-borough war

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A continuation of the inter-borough Bridge Wars and a sequel of sorts to BDP’s famed “South Bronx,” this second diss to the Juice Crew goes even harder at the Queens collective’s members, particularly MC Shan, Marley Marl, Mr. Magic, and Roxanne Shante. It is generally thought of as one of the greatest, if not the greatest, diss song of all time.

The B-Side to this song was Word From Our Sponsor

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The only way Cube and co. can enjoy themselves anymore is by hustling and making a lot of money – see here for another famous N.W.A.-affiliated “clocking a grip” reference

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